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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dodie Smith

In time of test, family is best.

Burmese Proverb

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Marsha Norman

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family.

Lee Iacocca

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.

Marge Kennedy

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Anthony Brandt

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred Allen

We have been told, O Krishna, that people whose family traditions are destroyed necessarily dwell in hell for a long time.

Bhagavad Gita

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

George Bernard Shaw

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Saul Alinsky

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Senator John Kerry

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses

Eli Broad

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Oliver Goldsmith

My life is -- as if each person I know was born with a beautiful book with golden edges on each page -- and each of us can read the language of our own book -- containing our own unique values, ideas, insights and direction, yet we cannot read the language of anyone else's book, and they cannot read our book. And, then, you and I started talking and I discovered that while the words in your book are different from mine, the language of your book is exactly the same as mine -- and words flow and flow between us without effort. Then, I looked closer in my book and I saw beautiful, happy pictures of you and your family...and I smiled

Laura Teresa Marquez

My family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love

Celine Dion

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Laurence Clark Powell

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Jerry Seinfeld

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?

Ronald Reagan

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

William J. Wilson

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-- over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Wine to me is passion. It is family and friends. It is warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It is culture. It is the essence of civilization and the art of living.

Robert Mondavi

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

Brandi Chastain

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